{"id":82,"date":"2009-10-13T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-01-29T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T04:28:33","slug":"long-beach-vacation-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach vacation day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday October 10, 2009:<\/p>\n

Today is the first day of my much-anticipated trip to Long Beach. Though actually I’m first going to Victoria to chill with some homies and do some commerce and rubbernecking I didn’t get to last time.<\/p>\n

I had originally planned to hit the awesome Ooh La La<\/a> confectionary for some treats to take to the beach with me, and then maybe also visit Miniature World<\/a>, Russell Books<\/a> and one of the naval museums in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Alas, twas not to be. Yesterday one of the larger ferries doing the Vancouver->Victoria run suffered a fire in a backup generator and was taken out of service for repairs. That plus this being a long weekend resulted in this:<\/p>\n

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Thankfully Mike gave me a heads-up that it might be busy, so I skipped breakfast and went right to the ferry terminal in the morning. I arrived at Tsawassen at about 9:20am and was told that I might get on the noon boat, but more likely would be on the 1pm boat. So I settled in for a four-hour wait; walked around a bit, had a snack and did some reading.<\/p>\n

Noon came and went with no movement in my lane. The 1pm boat caused some movement but I didn’t get on. That was a bit of a miff, because the missing boat left a gap in the schedule and the next one wouldn’t be until 3pm. Tired of reading, I broke out the laptop and was going to blog furiously, but I couldn’t figure out how to get out of the local WAP after connecting. So I just did some hacking on one of my projects instead. Books and laptops are a great boon to the bored.<\/p>\n

Finally got on the 3pm boat. Arrived in Victoria around 5:30pm, which was too late to do any of the things I wanted to do; everything closes at an unreasonable time here.<\/p>\n

Went to Mike & Kate’s pad and had delicious homemade chicken korma. Caught up with same, met and adored the family pets, and called it a night.<\/p>\n

(nb: I wasn’t able to get the wireless working at Mike’s place either, which is why I’m a few days behind in blogging this trip.)<\/p>\n

Today’s GPS track:<\/p>\n

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